Category Archives: Beeeeer

So I didn’t have to go out to that stupid dam today, though I did have to do a bit of work-from-home, and then the neighbor came over and said they were going to burn the fence, so I went out to help. Wound up getting most of that stupid dead willow at the back of the field, though unfortunately the elm trees back there didn’t go up in a wall of flame to save me from the chainsaw (which will happen at some point). Took a shower, and now under plans to go visit the local brewery, where they are having craftbeer sample day! $10 at the door to try out the beers from 11 different Western Slope breweries. Fun times.

So the other weekend, when it was so horribly dusty outside, I bottled my latest batch of beer. It was supposed to be a red ale, but if I had followed the recipe I would have had something like 1/6th of a pound of roasted barley left over, so I just threw it all in, which resulted in a nice dark red/brown color (I’m calling it Dust Bowl Brown). It’s only been bottled a week, and you’re supposed to wait at least 2 weeks before even thinking about tasting it, but of course you never can wait that long, so I popped one open at the 1 week mark, and thought that it was a perfectly delightful normal brown beer–unremarkable, but nicely drinkable, I suppose you could say. And then the other day I went to a new brewpub out in Fruita, and tried their brown ale–their professionally made, salable, and entertainingly named brown ale. I am happy to report that it was just as good as my young, green, only-going-to-get-better brew. Validating.

Sorry none of you folks is likely ever to taste it, but what can I say–sometimes you just have to pat yourself on the back for a job well done.